Word: giuliani
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Several of the GOP candidates have qualities that might appeal to independent voters: Rudy Giuliani's successful record as mayor of New York City, Mitt Romney's intelligence and competence, Mike Huckabee's concern for the poor. But McCain just won more independent voters than the others in the swing state of New Hampshire. And he is the only candidate with a platform that might attract them...
Huckabee's radical tax plan--replacing the income and payroll tax with a national sales tax--is a right-wing cause. Giuliani's support for legal abortion repels some independents while attracting others--and to make up for it with conservatives, he has toed the line on just about everything else. Romney and Fred Thompson have been too busy trying to prove their movement-conservative creds to pay attention to independents...
...race goes on to Florida, and guess who's sitting there like a bug on a stump? Rudy Giuliani," said Mit Spears, a Washington Republican in Romney's camp. Florida's Jan. 29 primary will test the former New York City mayor's unconventional strategy of hanging back until the race reaches the megastates, where his celebrity gives him extra leverage...
...raisers in one week as we've had in the rest of the year put together," said Ryan Ballard, a national co-chair of McCain's money team. "I haven't had enough time to answer all the calls I'm getting - from Romney people, mostly, but even from Giuliani people looking over their shoulders and hedging their bets...
What do you think would happen if those social issues started to become more of a factor? Do you think it would change the debate? Would it get uglier or less ugly? I don't know, but I could draw you a scenario where Rudy Giuliani also has traction among that other spectrum in the party. There is a pro-choice element within the Republican party. There is a New York kind...